Ok I absolutely LOVE the idea of being able to turn off the home button for specific apps. It seems that there are a LOT of us that have very young children, and I have the exact same problem. He quickly learned that the home button does something different, and so it is his favorite button.

The same thing happens with the ps3. I try to let him play some of the games with me, like lego batman for instance, and he'll play around for a few minutes, but then he hits the PS button and exits the game. He thinks it is very funny. He doesn't understand that he doesn't get to play any more because of this.

I'd really love an option where the home button displays a keypad, and you're required to enter a code to leave the application. Just for specific applications of course. This would be enough to let my 20 month old son keep playing with the app he is allows to play with, and would mean that it would still work for an older child.

The best alternative I can think of now is to use the parental controls to limit the phone to just a few games before giving the child the phone, but that is rather cumbersome.

Ok I absolutely LOVE the idea of being able to turn off the home button for specific apps. It seems that there are a LOT of us that have very young children, and I have the exact same problem. He quickly learned that the home button does something different, and so it is his favorite button.

I think the easiest would be to just disable the home button's single click for certain apps. You would exit the app by holding the home button down for 5 seconds just like you hard terminate any app. That's just how I see it working for simplicity.

Sooooo...who's going to get on this? I'm not a developer, so I'm wondering if someone wants to send this to someone who can write it. ;-)